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^{155} D. W. Brogan, The American Character (New York: Vintage, 1959), p. 164.

^{156} Bellah, Varieties of Civil Religion, p. 11–13; Cherry, «Two American Sacred Ceremonies», p. 749–50.

^{157} Isaiah Berlin, «Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power», Partisan Review, 46 (No. 3, 1979), p. 348, quoted in John Mack, «Nationalism and the Self», The Psychohistory Review, 2 (Spring 1983), p. 47–48; Anthony D. Smith, National Identity (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1991), p. 143; Wilbur Zelinsky, Nation into State: The Shifting Symbolic Foundations of American Nationalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1988), p. 1.

^{158} Benjamin Franklin quoted in Max Savelle, «Nationalism and Other Loyalties in the American Revolution», American Historical Review, 67 (July 1962), p. 903.

^{159} S. M. Grant, «‘The Charter of Its Birthright’: The Civil War and American Nationalism», Nations and Nationalism, 4 (April 1998), p. 163.

^{160} Richard L. Merritt, Symbols of American Community, 1735–1775 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), p. 174, 180.

^{161} John M. Murrin, «A Roof Without Walls: The Dilemma of American National Identity», in Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, and Edward C. Carter II, eds., Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987), p. 339; Merritt, Symbols of American Community, p. 58.